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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Angels slugger Albert Pujols fires back at Jack Clark over performance-enhancing drug allegations. (Duane Burleson/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols will be taking legal action against former MLB player Jack Clark \u00A0after Clark made comments accusing Pujols of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to Los Angeles Times reporter Mike DiGiovanna.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a statement released by Pujols, the slugger\u00A0said that it was \"irresponsible and reckless for Jack Clark to falsely accuse me of using PEDs.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pujols' defiant statement against Clark's accusations:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I\u2019ve said time and time again that I would never take, or even consider taking, anything illegal.\u00A0 I\u2019ve been tested hundreds of times throughout my career and never once have I tested positive.\u00A0 It is irresponsible and reckless for Jack Clark to have falsely accused me of using PED\u2019s.\u00A0 My faith in Jesus Christ, and my respect for this game are too important to me.\u00A0 I would never be able to look my wife or kids in the eye if I had done what this man is accusing me of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know people are tired of athletes saying they are innocent, asking for the public to believe in them, only to have their sins exposed later down the road.\u00A0\u00A0 But I am not one of those athletes, and I will not stand to have my name and my family\u2019s name, dragged through the mud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am currently in the process of taking legal action against Jack Clark and his employers at WGNU 920AM.\u00A0 I am going to send a message that you cannot act in a reckless manner, like they have, and get away with it.\u00A0 If I have to be the athlete to carry the torch and pave the way for other innocent players to see that you can do something about it,\u00A0 I am proud to be that person.\u00A0 I have five young children and I take being a role model very seriously.\u00A0 The last thing I want is for the fans, and especially the kids out there, to question my reputation and character&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clark, as a co-host of a sports talk radio show on\u00A0WGNU (920 AM), said Pujols' former personal trainer\u00A0Chris Mihfield told Clark that Pujols was using performance-enhancing drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the\u00A0&lt;em&gt;St. Louis Post-Dispatch, &lt;/em&gt;Clark said that Mihfield\u00A0\u201Chad told me what he was doing with \u2018Poolie\u2019 \u2014 threw him batting practice, worked him out, shot him up, all that stuff.\" Clark brought up Pujols' name up twice in the first week working at the station when discussing the topic of performance enhancing drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;em&gt;St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u00A0&lt;/em&gt;report\u00A0:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And Clark, who still hasn\u2019t completed his first full week as co-host of the afternoon drive-time with Kevin Slaten at WGNU (920 AM), isn\u2019t just some former athlete who has been out of the loop for decades and shooting from the hip. He was the hitting coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s when he said he was told by Chris Mihlfeld, who for a time was Pujols\u2019 personal trainer, that Mihlfeld \u201Cshot him up.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clark has brought Pujols\u2019 situation up at least twice already on the air. The first time, after Slaten said last Friday that he long has believed that Pujols \u201Chas been a juicer,\u201D Clark jumped in before Slaten finished his thought and said, \u201CI know for a fact he was. The trainer that worked with him, threw him batting practice from Kansas City, that worked him out every day, basically told me that\u2019s what he did.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clark, a retired player who hit 340 home runs over 18 MLB seasons, also accused Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander of using performance-enhancing drugs. He said Verlander\u2019s dip in velocity and overall dominance is correlated with Verlander no longer using the drugs after Verlander signed a long-term deal with the Tigers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clark\u00A0commented on Verlander\u2019s performance to the\u00A0&lt;em&gt;St. Louis Post-Dispatch:\u00A0&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CVerlander was like Nolan Ryan, he threw 97, 98, 100 miles an hour from the first inning to the ninth inning,\u201D Clark said on the air. \u201CHe got that big contract, now he can barely reach 92, 93. What happened to it? He has no arm problems, nothing\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s just the signs are there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThe greed \u2026 they juice up, they grab the money and it\u2019s just a free pass to steal is the way I look at it.\u201DVerlander responded by calling Clark's comments \"moronic.\"&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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